Definition of lace-curtain in US English:

lace-curtain

adjective

informal

Having social pretensions; self-consciously genteel.
the fancy sons of lace-curtain Boston lawyers
Example sentencesExamples
- He was fast and he had a pretty good ear but he had the terrible inferiority complex of the lace-curtain Irish and he never learned that it doesn't matter a damn where you come from socially; it is where you go.
- That hotel, once a popular spot for the lace-curtain Irish, still stands, though today it is a retirement home.
- I once directed a film about youth hockey in Boston's West Roxbury section, a classic lace-curtain Boston Irish neighborhood, filled with families moving up from poorer parts of the city.
- So he made James Tyrone merely theatrical royalty and his wife Mary a preening lace-curtain Irish-American parochial schoolgirl, and grounded their tragedy in the everyday middle-class friction of family life lived in close quarters.

Definition of lace-curtain in US English:

lace-curtain

adjective

informal

Having social pretensions; self-consciously genteel.
the fancy sons of lace-curtain Boston lawyers
Example sentencesExamples
- That hotel, once a popular spot for the lace-curtain Irish, still stands, though today it is a retirement home.
- He was fast and he had a pretty good ear but he had the terrible inferiority complex of the lace-curtain Irish and he never learned that it doesn't matter a damn where you come from socially; it is where you go.
- So he made James Tyrone merely theatrical royalty and his wife Mary a preening lace-curtain Irish-American parochial schoolgirl, and grounded their tragedy in the everyday middle-class friction of family life lived in close quarters.
- I once directed a film about youth hockey in Boston's West Roxbury section, a classic lace-curtain Boston Irish neighborhood, filled with families moving up from poorer parts of the city.

单词	lace-curtain
释义	Definition of lace-curtain in US English: lace-curtain adjective informal Having social pretensions; self-consciously genteel. the fancy sons of lace-curtain Boston lawyers Example sentencesExamples He was fast and he had a pretty good ear but he had the terrible inferiority complex of the lace-curtain Irish and he never learned that it doesn't matter a damn where you come from socially; it is where you go. That hotel, once a popular spot for the lace-curtain Irish, still stands, though today it is a retirement home. I once directed a film about youth hockey in Boston's West Roxbury section, a classic lace-curtain Boston Irish neighborhood, filled with families moving up from poorer parts of the city. So he made James Tyrone merely theatrical royalty and his wife Mary a preening lace-curtain Irish-American parochial schoolgirl, and grounded their tragedy in the everyday middle-class friction of family life lived in close quarters. Definition of lace-curtain in US English: lace-curtain adjective informal Having social pretensions; self-consciously genteel. the fancy sons of lace-curtain Boston lawyers Example sentencesExamples That hotel, once a popular spot for the lace-curtain Irish, still stands, though today it is a retirement home. He was fast and he had a pretty good ear but he had the terrible inferiority complex of the lace-curtain Irish and he never learned that it doesn't matter a damn where you come from socially; it is where you go. So he made James Tyrone merely theatrical royalty and his wife Mary a preening lace-curtain Irish-American parochial schoolgirl, and grounded their tragedy in the everyday middle-class friction of family life lived in close quarters. I once directed a film about youth hockey in Boston's West Roxbury section, a classic lace-curtain Boston Irish neighborhood, filled with families moving up from poorer parts of the city.
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